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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xnosipjpqmhd" data-source="post: 2666968">Session 5 : Part 2THE STORY SO FAR: The heroes have returned to their home town to meet with the healer Kelakor, whom they suspect has sinister intentions for Nepzillian’s grandfather. But the healer is not at home, so they break in.SESSION 5 : PART 2Summary: The heroes sneak through the rooms as best they can, with the goat in tow. While upstairs, they discover a painting (of a woman Roland saw with Kelakor the night Ulfgard’s sister nearly died), a washbasin filled with putrid water and a small three-legged stand made of brass.Roland: Go in.DM: Ok, you go on in, and this is a sitting room. Couple chairs. Here’s one chair just to show you what’s in there.Ulfgard: Anything on the table?Longbeard: The chair.DM: Flowers.Ulfgard: Ok. What else is in the room?DM: It seems like a fairly normal furnished room. Actually kind of sparse. There is a painting of a woman.Roland: Yummy.DM: Looks like that. [shows picture of the painting]Roland: Hey!Ulfgard: Wait, who is that?Roland: Isn’t that that girl we met before?Ulfgard: Yes, she was here.The heroes had spoken with Kelakor less than a week earlier in the foyer downstairs. He had a woman with him then, but the heroes were in a hurry, and there was no time for introductions. When her eyes caught Roland’s, however, the minstrel saw a weird symbol on her forehead, and an unusual bond was created between them, though he said nothing to the other heroes.DM: And there’s also a door.Roland: Who was she?Ulfgard: We never figured out, but she was the sultry beauty.Nepzillian: The whoeewhat?Roland: No, no, that’s not her.Ulfgard: Yes, it is. Is that picture of the woman we saw?Roland: Is that the girl that we met when we came here?DM: It looks very strikingly like the woman who was with the healer that one day.Ulfgard: Right.Roland: Yes.Nepzillian: Do we remember if anything was said about her?DM: [to Roland] You remember her quite clearly.Roland: I know. Um, is the painting able to take-- is it in a frame, I assume? DM: Yes.Roland: I’m gonna take it out of the frame.Ulfgard: [whispering] You can’t take that. He’s gonna know. He’ll be robbed.Roland: I’ll leave him a goat.Ulfgard: You can’t take that.Roland: I want to take it. Hey, look. Look what he’s been doing to Nep’s grandfather. He’s not a good man. Ulfgard: I know that. However, we will also take the high road.Roland: He doesn’t deserve to have this. She’s my muse. I like the picture of her.Ulfgard: That’s great, perhaps when we find--Roland: Maybe I can draw him another one.Ulfgard: Perhaps, let’s do this. When we find that he is something in the darkness, and we do slay him out of our…Roland: Goodness?Ulfgard: Yeah, the goodness of our heart…Longbeard: Then we’ll come back here and get it.Ulfgard: That’s fair.Roland: I’d really like to keep that painting.Ulfgard: Tell you what, why don’t…Nepzillian: We’ll keep it right here. Longbeard: Let’s remember where it is.Ulfgard: That’s right. Let’s remember where it’s at.Roland: Each of you give me a gold piece, and I’ll leave it. I’ve got to get that bow, remember?Ulfgard: Yeah, I remember. However, extortion is not the way to do it, especially…Roland: I can probably get it for… Can you spell extortion?Ulfgard: E-X-T-O-R-T-I-O-N.Nepzillian: I’ll attach this gold piece to this hammer and I’ll deliver it to you. Just leave it alone.Roland: Alright, I’ll put it back.DM: Ok.Roland: I don’t want to put it back, though. I like her. She’s cute. She’s beautiful.Ulfgard: Uh-huh. Yes. Exactly. Let’s press on.Roland: Let’s check out the rest of the house, er-- room.Ulfgard: Is there anything else in the room? Let’s look behind the picture.Roland: Is there a name on the back of the picture?Ulfgard: Or a nameplate on the front of the picture?DM: No. No.Ulfgard: Alright. Keep going.Nepzillian: Listen at the door.Roland: I’m gonna feed the flowers to the goat.DM: It munches them.Roland: And then I’ll put the pot back on the table.Ulfgard: Are there any kind of drawers in the table or anything like that?Roland: I really don’t like this cat. I think we ought to take that picture.Nepzillian: Listen at the door.Ulfgard: Listen at the door.Roland: [rolls die] Alright! Dudes, I’m on it tonight. 21.Ulfgard: Yeah, you are. That’s good. Anything?DM: It’s silent.Ulfgard: Let’s go in.Roland: Too silent?Ulfgard: I’ll bet it’s a hallway.DM: Well, you still hear somebody shuffling around downstairs.Ulfgard: …plus the click-click-click of the goat.Roland: Hey, while the goat is eating, let’s go. Let’s leave it in here to eat. Ulfgard: Ok.Roland: That way it’s over here like…Longbeard: “I think I hear seven people upstairs, because there’s 14 feet. Two of the guys are really small and stay close together.”Roland: Let’s go while he’s eating potted plants.Ulfgard: That’s funny. “There’s two homosexuals up there walking around.”Nepzillian: “In high heels.”Ulfgard: In high heels, yeah.Roland: Go up here and listen at this door.DM: Make a roll.Roland: [rolls die] 10.DM: You don’t hear anything.Roland: Hey, as far as I know I’ve been doing real good. I’ll open it.DM: Ok, it opens right up. This room has a round table, for which I don’t have a miniature…Ulfgard: Oo, King Arthur!Roland: If I put the sword in his skull, then I’m king, right? DM: The window is open about eight inches. Bird droppings are all over this room. There’s a bathtub in this room. It’s got stagnant, scummy water in it. And there’s a tripod-like stand sitting in the middle of the round table.Ulfgard: I go up to the tripod. What’s in it?DM: Nothing. It looks like this. [shows picture]Ulfgard: Ok, so it’s not holding anything.DM: It’s not holding anything, and there’s a sack on the floor.Ulfgard: What’s in the sack?DM: Nothing. It’s sort of a-- like a potato sack.Ulfgard: Are there any remnants of anything that’s been in it, like plant matter?Roland: Drain the bathtub.Longbeard: I’m dwowning.Ulfgard: What’s that?Longbeard: Dwain the bathtub. I’m dwowning.DM: You got a bucket?Roland: Oh yeah, I guess so. Um… Is there a bucket there?DM: Yes.Roland: I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna take…DM: Bird droppings are everywhere, keep in mind.Roland: Is there a stick or anything, not a stick but like a bath brush or anything like that in here?DM: No.Roland: Is there any towels?DM: No. It’s actually quite a sparse room.Ulfgard: Can we see through the water?DM: No, it’s murky.Ulfgard: How deep is it?DM: Hmm, three feet.Nepzillian: Throw the goat in it.Roland: Hey, the goat’s back there eating!Ulfgard: Is there anything in the room that’s long and that has a handle or anything like that?Roland: Yeah, but I ain’t getting in there.DM: One of the weapons you’re carrying.Ulfgard: Alright, give me my spear.Roland: Whoa, whoa. We don’t want to pierce anything.Ulfgard: I’m not. I’ll use the butt of my spear. I’m gonna just sort of-- is there anything in the water?DM: No, nothing that you bump against.Ulfgard: Ok. I’m looking for dead bodies.Roland: Yeah, I’m gonna sniff the water. Does it smell like stagnant water?DM: It smells salty… and disgusting. Like a swamp.Ulfgard: It might have been seawater.Roland: I’ll taste it. What’ll you give me [if I do]?Longbeard: Nothing.Roland: Why would a doctor have stagnant saltwater…?Ulfgard: Is there any kind of medicinal remedy? Like, there’s no medicinal remedy that I can think of that requires saltwater, is there?DM: Uh, nothing off the top of your head, no.Roland: Does the tripod fold?DM: Yes. And it’s made of brass.Nepzillian: Why don’t we try some other rooms? Maybe it will help explain the situation.Ulfgard: Yeah, let’s go in the other rooms.Roland: Should we take the tripod?Nepzillian: I say we look around first.Ulfgard: Is it ornate in any fashion?Roland: It folds down…DM: It’s pretty simple, but it’s made of brass.Roland: And it folds.DM: And it folds. It looks like it would hold--Longbeard: What size of a sphere would that…DM: It looks like it would hold a bowl or a sphere of about this big.Ulfgard: Palantir.Roland: The Palantir of Orthanc! Bastard. Let’s leave it for now.Ulfgard: Ok, let’s leave it and see what else is…Roland: We can come back and get it when we get the picture.Ulfgard: Right. [does a double-take] Right.Roland: Shut the door.Ulfgard: Keep going.Roland: I’m gonna go over here and listen at this. [points to a door on the map]DM: Ok.Roland: [rolls die] 7. I’m sure there’s nothing in there.DM: That’s right.Roland: I’ll open it.DM: Alright. You open it up to a bedroom.Ulfgard: He’s in there whacking.Roland: Throw the Palantir at him! Screw this!DM: There’s a portion of this chimney… you can’t get into the hallway. This is a bed. There’s a chair sitting under the table…Ulfgard: Really.DM: Sitting under the desk. It’s, um…Roland: Is there a fire going?DM: There is no fire going in the fireplace. It’s furnished pretty well. And dust does not cover everything, so it looks like it has been recently used. Ulfgard: Um, can we… I’m going to look at the ashes and see how long it’s been since the fire has been lit.DM: Maybe it was lit last night. Ulfgard: Ok.DM: There’s also some remnants of paper in there.Ulfgard: Ooh. I’m going to get those out.DM: Alright.Roland: While he’s doing this, I’m going to check the bookshelf.Nepzillian: I think it’s a headboard, ain’t it? Or is it a bookshelf? [looks closer at the miniature]Roland: Is that a bookshelf or a headboard?DM: That is a bookshelf.Roland: I’ll check the bookshelf.DM: Ok.Ulfgard: Longbeard, are you out in the hallway?Longbeard: Yes.Ulfgard: Great.DM: [throws a bunch of torn bits of paper up in the air] The paper that you find is whatever you can pick up from that.Roland: Not now, though. Let’s get out of here and get what we…Ulfgard: I’m gonna pick it all up. I’m gonna pick it all up. [starts collecting bits of paper]I’m a firm believer in giving the players something tactile to puzzle over. I don’t like just describing an object and having the player make a skill roll… where’s the fun in that?Roland: I’ll check the bookshelf.DM: Ok, he’s digging through the ashes.Roland: Right.DM: The bookshelf… Nepzillian: Ha, that’s good.Ulfgard: There’s one on your foot, too, Longbeard.Roland: Don’t let the goat have it. You know what happened to Nash. You know what happened to Nash. We can’t take that. Hey, we can’t take that.Longbeard: You can’t take the paper?Roland: No, you can’t take that.Ulfgard: I’m going to use a spell to piece it all together.Roland: You wouldn’t let me have the portrait. You can’t have that.Ulfgard: This is for the…Here follows a discussion of Lord of the Rings trivia and upcoming movies, and it is presented here only for completeness’ sake. Feel free to skip ahead to Part 3, if you like.DM: Hey, do you know what he won before you got here?Roland: What?Ulfgard: One of those. [points to a Lord of the Rings poster on the wall] We had Lord of the Rings trivia, and I won.Roland: I would’ve beat him!Ulfgard: Yeah, yeah, whatever.Roland: That’s not fair.DM: You know what, he won on… what was the question?Ulfgard: What’s J.R.R. stand for?DM: Yep, he won on what’s J.R.R. stand for, and he even got a bonus question.Roland: What was the bonus question?DM: What was Aragorn’s ring that he gave to Arwen?Ulfgard: The Ring of Barahir.DM: The Ring of Barahir.Roland: Wow.DM: He knows his stuff.Roland: You do. I would’ve lost… maybe. I think I should get a chance.DM: Do you want to see how well he can do?Ulfgard: Not really. Not right now.Roland: Yeah, I can’t really.Ulfgard: Um, would, but this is more fun.Roland: Good, ‘cause I just stopped caring about stuff like that. That’s not true. Hey, man…DM: Yeah.Roland: What was the dude’s name that changed into a bear?DM: Oh, I know that one.Ulfgard: Radagast?Roland: No.Longbeard: Changed into a bear…Roland: Changed into a bear.DM: In The Hobbit.Roland: In The Hobbitses.Ulfgard: In when?Roland: In The Hobbit.Ulfgard: The Hobbit, ooh. Boy. That I don’t know.Roland: Beorn. Beorn and the Beornings.Ulfgard: Hmm.Roland: What was the guy’s name that got ‘em out of the Barrow Downs?DM: Yeah, there you go.Ulfgard: Tom Bombadil.Nepzillian: Tom Bombadil.Roland: What was his girlfriend’s name?Ulfgard: Oh, boy.Roland: I’d’ve whooped your ass! I’d’ve whooped your white ass!Ulfgard: Yeah, but I’ll tell you what, I hate that part.Roland: Oh, I love that part.Ulfgard: I hated that part with Tom Bombadil.Roland: I loved that part.Ulfgard: You know, and I thought…Roland: [imitates accent] I oughta write something in here about the Irish in here…Ulfgard: I thought you know that they could’ve put Radagast the Brown in.Roland: Radagast was only in it for like 2 pages, dude.Ulfgard: Great.Roland: Ever.Ulfgard: Yeah, but there’s another wizard they could’ve had.Roland: There’s actually 2 others. There’s also…Longbeard: The more wizards, the better.Roland: Pelegast, and there’s another one.DM: He didn’t name those. They’re not in the books.Roland: Right. That’s in Silmarillion, I believe.DM: No, that’s made up by some game company, I.C.E., Iron Crown Enterprises or something.Roland: Was it?DM: Yeah, he never names any of those.Roland: I thought they were in Silmarillion.DM: I don’t think so, no.Roland: There was like a bunch of them, but a lot of them died.DM: In all of this Lord of the Rings rage, I’m waiting for somebody to jump in and do Lewis’ Narnia series.Roland: Aw, that’d be cool.Ulfgard: I’ve heard that they’re gonna be doing those.DM: I betcha they will.Ulfgard: They’re gonna do The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.Roland: Aw, that would be cool.Ulfgard: And what’s really funny is that Nicole is into this series of books that’s called A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the author is a fictitious name called Lemony Snicket. And they’re really cute, sort of macabre, books. They really are a little odd.Roland: Yeah.Ulfgard: It’s about these three, it’s set in Victorian times and the parents of these three children, they were wealthy, and they died, and they were killed in a fire. So in turn, this benefactor, Count Olaf, has taken these children in and he’s trying to kill them to get their fortune. And there’s like 11 books already; well, they’re making a movie about it too.Longbeard: You got some hooch I can borrow?DM: Yeah.Roland: You know what, I think I’m going to break down…Nepzillian: That I don’t doubt.Roland: Yeah, but you’ve gotta go get the next one…Ulfgard: Have you seen the movie, Return of the King?Roland: No. I think I’m gonna actually break down and read the Harry Potter books.Ulfgard: I read the first one.Roland: They say their really good.Ulfgard: Do you have a DVD?Roland: When it works, yeah.DM: When it works?Roland: It’s been coming up No Disc. I’m about to buy a new one.Ulfgard: ‘Cause I’ve got, I borrowed the, a girl at work has Return of the King…Roland: I’m gonna buy it.Ulfgard: Well, you can borrow it and read it, er, watch it.DM: I’ve got it.Roland: Yeah, he’s got it, I mean.Ulfgard: I really can’t wait for the uncut version.DM: Yeah, I know.Roland: That’s what I’m waiting on.Ulfgard: Oh. I’m not gonna buy-- because The Two Towers, the extended version of that was great!Roland: Oh yeah!Ulfgard: I mean they had so much more of Boromir.Roland: That a hell of a difference.Ulfgard: I thought, man, so good.Roland: Hell of a difference.Ulfgard: Well, both the movies, all three movies.Roland: Um, the first one, you know, the thing about the first one was, they really shouldn’t have left that stuff out, because that explained a lot later on. But I don’t think the one in the second one actually explained anything too much.TO BE CONTINUED</blockquote>

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